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Burnside Assumes Command of the Army with Prayerful Reluctance

New Plan of Operations - A Rapid Movement - Failure to Supply

Pontoons - The Battle of Fredericksburg - Desperate Fighting —

Vigorous Defense by the Confederates - Failure, Pages 182-191

Opposition by the Generals to a Renewal of the Attack - Official Account

of its Disasters and Assumption of the Responsibility - Military

Criticisms Lincoln's Address to the Troops - Another Movement

- Insubordinate Generals - Letter from Lincoln- The Mud Cam-

paign General Orders No. 8- Resigns,

Resignation of His Commission not Accepted by President Lincoln-

Return to Rhode Island - Placed in Command of the Department of

the Ohio Suppression of Treason - Kentucky Quieted-Visits to

Liberty and Hamilton- - Arrest and Trial of Vallandigham - Sup-

pression of Newspapers - Morgan's Raid-The Kentucky Cam-

paign, .
Pages 202-212

March Across Kentucky - Preservation of Order- Crossing the Cum-

berland Mountains - The Union Troops Received with Enthusiasm

Occupation of Knoxville - Resignation Again Tendered and Again

Refused Arrival of General Longstreet-Five Battles in Four

Days — Siege of Knoxville - Return to Rhode Island, Pages 213-223

Ordered to Recruit the Ninth Corps - A Story by President Lincoln —

Boston's Song-Welcome - Speech at Chicago on the Situation-

Reorganization of the Ninth Corps - Its Review by the President —

Battles of the Wilderness and Cold Harbor - Change of Base,

The Siege of Petersburg - The Mine Beneath the Enemy's Works—

Plan of Attack - The Colored Troops Counted Out - The Assault-

Delay in the Explosion-A Terrible Scene General Meade Petu-

lant Retreat of the Ninth Corps after Hard Fighting - Relieved

Popular Disappointment over the Result at Petersburg - A Court-

Martial Asked for by General Meade — A Court of Inquiry Ordered

Testimony Findings of the Court - Review of Them Return to

Providence Visits the White Mountains Speech at the Centen-

nial of Brown University, .
Pages 249-257

The Political Campaign of 1864 -- Speech at Providence - Congressional

Investigation of the Attack on Petersburg - Testimony of Lieutenant-

General Grant Report of the Committee - Close of the War-

Resignation - Military Character - Return to Civil Life - President

of the Cincinnati and Martinsville Railroad,

Nominated and Elected Governor of Rhode Island- Railroad Opera-

tions at the West- Soldiers Monument at Providence - Presenta-

Reëlection - A West Point Comrade Aided - The Kingsbury

Vincennes and Cairo Railroad,

Home at Providence - Love of the Soldiers for "Old Burney'

tesy Towards Inferiors - An Act of Kindness - - Attack Made on Him

by Senator Sprague - Defense of Him by Senators Anthony, Nye,

Chandler, Abbott, and Morton - Testimonial from Citizens of Rhode

Island - Ninth Army Corps Association,
Pages 275-284

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Unsuccessful Visit to London - Goes to Paris to Witness the Siege of

that City Is Made Prisoner at a Saxon Out-post-Dr. Russell's

Account of Versailles and the German Leaders - Fondness of Bis-

marck for Burnside - Visits Paris Under a Flag of Truce — The

Besieged City - Second Visit - Return to London, Pages 285-294

The Army Reunions for 1873 - Burnside Brought Forward as a Candi-

date for the United States Senate - Unsuccessful Balloting - Visit to

Knoxville-Addresses in Tennessee- Elected United States Sen-

"Edghill Farm” The House and Furniture - Farm Stock - Rural

Pursuits Kindness to Animals - Visits from Veterans - Hospitali-

ties Personal Popularity - Traits of Character, Pages 304-312

Takes His Seat in the Senate - The Old and New Senators - Decoration

Day at Antietam National Cemetery - Patriotic Address on Deco-

ration Day - Speech at the Commencement Dinner of Brown Uni-

versity — Banquet of the Loyal Legion at Boston General Grant at

"Edghill Farm,"
Pages 313-321

In the United States Senate-Death of Mrs. Burnside-

Duties - Modesty - Exposure of an Amicable Arrangement — Chair-

man of the Committee on Education and Labor - Hayes as Presi-

dent - Tribute from Senator Jones - Hospitality at Washington,

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Death of Senator Morton Enlistment of Colored Recruits-Com-

mission for the Reorganization of the Army - Military Bands-

Eight-hour Law Impartial Reports,

Work of the Special Military Commission - Arms to be Manufactured

in Private Establishments - Appointment of Staff-Officers- Social

Science in Schools - Estimate of General Burnside's Character, by

Senator Edmunds,
Pages 340-347

The Democrats Gain Possession of the Senate Change of Officers-

Rhode Island Public Works - Speech on the Monroe Doctrine —

Fair Play at West Point - Soldiers and Senators - Reëlection to

the United States Senate,
Pages 348-361

The Fitz John Porter Case - Endowment of an Educational Fund by

the Sales of Public Lands - Pension Laws and Pensioners - - Monu-

ments on Revolutionary Battle-fields - Moral and Social Science in

Schools - Watchful Attention to Senatorial Business, Pages 362-370

CHAPTER XXXVII.

The Executive Session - Turn of the Political Wheel of Fortune-Com-

mittee Service - Acrimonious Debate in the Senate - Restoration of

Harmony -- Suffrage in Rhode Island - Report on the Monroe Doc-

trine,
Pages 371-384

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Return to Rhode Island - Assassination of President Garfield - Acci-

dent Last Hours - Death Rhode Island's Mourning - Demon-

strations of Respect - Farewell to Edghill"- Services at Bristol-

The Remains Lying in State at Providence,
Pages 385-396

Funeral at Providence — The Military Display-The Veterans - The

Procession Services in the Church - Eulogy by the Rev. Mr.

Woodbury The Last March - The Interment,

Announcement of General Burnside's Death in the United States Senate

- Formal Presentation of Resolutions - Eulogy by Senator Anthony,

of Rhode Island,

Harrison, of Indiana; Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina;

and Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
Pages 424-432

Eulogies Delivered on General Burnside in the House of Representatives,

by the Hon. Jonathan Chace, and the Hon. Henry J. Spooner, of

Concluding Estimate of General Burnside's Military Career, Legislative

Ability, Public Speeches, and Private Life,

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